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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

12th-century French romances here in Dallas

The French people are like New Yorkers. You must get to know them to understand them. For me, I love them both and today I visited Camelot and all the lore of King Arthur's special world. It is just one of those things that have escaped me in the twenty years that I have been back in Dallas.

The romance of it is the streets that are jigsawed around a greenbelt that runs through the area. The area is a typical example of the Scottish highlands climbing some 100 plus feet from the greenbelt up to the ridge line. It's a neighborhood of modest and well kept homes. They also have a very unique feature that some would recognize and for others it would go unnoticed totally. That uniqueness is the perfect landscaping that is textbook in nature.

I've driven through the neighborhoods before and knew it was one of my favorite if I were in the house market again. But, today, all that splendid landscaping and architecture and physical lay of the land all came together in that uniqueness that you know somehow it is just a magical place to be.

One of the images will show the one-sided street that borders the greenbelt and the other will show how it blends two neighborhoods together. Since I grew up in a new house that mom and dad had built on a hill street like those I drove today, it gave me that feeling of comfort and attachment to the earth like I grew up in and around. Mom and Dad were  one lot away from the top of the hill but I have always loved being on a hillside.

I have long believed that my car goes where it is directed, but it's the Lord that is really driving, using me as the physical aspect of mechanics like braking, stopping, turning, etc.,etc.No, I"m not nuts by a long shot. I've just lived long enough to know that fate and a higher power control those that are loved and I thank God every night that He and the Grace that he sheds on me is well received as I offer thanks.

So, check out the images. While it was overcast today, it was comfortable. Another Gift from Above!
One home had 9 dogwoods in bloom at the corner of their lot. Others had more than one or two. This came from one of two trees that were between the sidewalk and the curb on a curve as the street wrapped around the greenbelt.
Actually, there are two species here. This image is of wild Jade Vine that if found hanging from high in a tree canopy over a creek that is part of the Trinity Greenbelt and Watershed District.
This one, is wild Wisteria and it too, hangs over the creek and has tree roots on the one side of the Greenbelt in the neighborhood. There is a footbridge that connects the two neighborhoods together and both the streets are one-sided lots, the other being part of the greenbelt.

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